Good morning! Happy Sunday. Six weeks to Daylight Savings Time 🌆. Snow showers, mostly gray with a few breaks and 26 degrees in post Trump Government shutdown Delmar. ❄ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the south 🌬 . The current wind chill is 13. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️ The snowman doesn’t quite know what to think about today.

Today will have a chance of rain and snow showers before 3pm, then rain showers likely between 3pm and 4pm, then snow showers likely after 4pm. The snow could be heavy at times. He ain’t heavy, he’s my snow squall. Doesn’t seem like it’s going to stick much as it’s pretty warm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 40 degrees at 3pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 4th. Breezy, with a southwest wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny. The high last year was 48 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 9.3 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

The sun will set at 5:02 pm with dusk around 5:32 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for snow showers, clouds 🌨 and temperatures around 35 degrees. Fairly mild for late January. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 15 mph with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 9 hours and 49 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 13 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 9 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 2 at 5am; Northwest wind 6 to 14 mph. Maybe I shouldn’t turn the heat down much tonight. It was a bit chilly this morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became totally cloudy dude by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 2005.

Yesterday was the Save the Pine Bush hike, 🌲which was followed by a bunch of us going to Yonder Farms for sweet tasting unhealthy but all so good things, then me wandering around the preserve for another two hours until dusk then heading over to Claire’s house to get my ski boots. 🏂 I’ve hiked all over the preserve but it’s the first time I’ve explored the upper Kiakout Kill to the east of Karner Road. Kind of neat how deep the ravine is there, they’re is a lot of fill on New Karner Road it cross the Kiakout Kill. The part of the trail that follows Old Karner Road is pretty neat too.

Later on I went home, had dinner cooking up some pasta and made up macaroni and cheese with some diced tomatoes and broccoli mixed it. 🍛Pretty good dinner then I went for an evening walk. Continuing to write the new driver for my LED lighting, I’ve been trying to restructure the code and make it more manageable while taking advantage of the greater flexibility I have with the Bluetooth and the powerful esp32 chipset compared to the much more primitive Arduino Uno. 💡

Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:56 pm with dusk at 7:24 pm (Daylight Savings Time). That will be nice to have the extra sunlight in the evenings. On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 38 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 42 degrees. We hit a record high of 72 back in 1977.